8 May 2013: LINK cash withdrawals rise by £148 million (8.4%) on 2012 over May Day weekend.

30 April 2013: LINK, working with Consumer Council Northern Ireland and Paypoint installs a new Financial Inclusion ATM in West Belfast

14 March 2013: LINK launches suggest a site service

15 January 2013: Payments Council announces timescale for launch of Mobile Payments.

23 November 2012: LINK's Consumer Council welcomes free-to-use ATM numbers reaching an all time high.

15 November 2012: LINK announces that Mary Buffee has taken up the new role of Head of Consumer Affairs.

16 August 2012: Cash withdrawals up by 4.6% during the Olympics compared to same period last year.

10 July 2012: Citizens Advice publish their report on consumers' access to cash.

20 June 2012: New charity donation service goes live.

14 March 2012: LINK, announces that Moneycorp, the currency specialist, has joined the LINK Scheme.

8 February 2012: LINK and Central St Martins School of Art and Design announce a new PhD to study ATM design and processes to improve customers' experience and security.

1 February 2012: LINK, Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland have launched a new research project on access to cash.

22 December 2011: The total value of LINK cash withdrawals for December to date up by 7%.

14 December 2011: LINK reports that the value of LINK cash withdrawals for the first eleven days of December has risen by 6.6% to £4 billion.

5 December 2011: The value of LINK cash withdrawals during the week ending Sunday 4 December has risen by 11% to £2.6 billion.

13 October 2011: The increase in the number of £5 note ATMs is applauded by LINK Consumer Committee

4 October 2011: LINK reports record ATM withdrawals as consumers make the most of the good weather.

28 July 2011: LINK and NYCE announce they have signed a multi-year agreement to provide mutual ATM access.

28 June 2011: LINK announces the appointment of John Howells as its new CEO.

14 June 2011: LINK announces its sponsorship of a new exhibition at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design which showcases innovative ways to prevent ATM crime.

23 May 2011: LINK announces that UK banks, building societies and cash machine operators have unanimously agreed to work together to enable charity giving at UK cash machines.

20 April 2011: EAPS, the Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes, has announced that two million European cross-border transactions were undertaken in 2010 using its payment framework. This represents an increase of more than 100% compared to 2009.

19 April 2011: LINK announces that plans to increase the quantity and quality of £5 notes in circulation are on track with over 1,700 cash machines now dispensing £5 notes.

2 September 2010: LINK Consumer Committee report welcomes new free-to-use ATMs, but regrets some cardholders still cannot use them.

29 July 2010: Metro Bank, Britain’s first new high street bank in over 150 years, has joined the LINK ATM network, giving its customers access to the entire UK cash machine network.

27 July 2010: Footage released by LINK reveals how criminals try to get hold of customers' PIN numbers.

12 July 2010: LINK, the UK’s ATM network has opened all 63,000 UK cash machines to 92 million users of the German card scheme girocard /ZKA.

20 May 2010: John Shepherd-Barron, the man credited with inventing the world’s first cash machine, has died at the age of 84.

5 May 2010: LINK, operator of the UK cash machine network, has reported that the May Day weekend saw new records for the volume and value of LINK cash machine (ATM) transactions.

4th of May, 2010 – Brussels: ATM transaction flows under the Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes (EAPS), which unites European debit card schemes, have increased thanks to Consorzio Bancomat and Zentraler Kreditausschuss opening up the Italian and German processing gateways, SIA-SSB and CardProcess, under the EAPS framework to support their agreement to allow each other’s cardholders to withdraw cash from their respective ATM networks.

05 March 2010: LINK, the UK cash machine network, welcomes today's announcement by the Bank of England of proposals to increase the quality and supply of five pound notes.

05 January 2010: LINK, the operator of the UK's cash machine network, has reported an increase of 4% in December's LINK cash machine withdrawals compared with December 2008.